Apologetics and the Heart
This article was originally published in Antithesis (July/August 1990). I still agree with all of this, but I must say that reading stuff of mine that is over twenty years old gives me the feeling that...
View ArticleThe Pigeon Forge Chapter
Okay, so the creation/evolution debate has many entries in the Annals of the Wheeze Worthy, but this is a particularly strong entry. A gent named Dan Arel has posted on why Bill Nye, the Science Guy,...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis and Moose Tracks Ice Cream
Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing natural law — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Jim Jordan kicked things off by attacking The Calvinist International at the Auburn Avenue conference,...
View ArticleThe Way It Looks on the Screen
So I am a presuppositionalist. That’s true enough, but what do I need to presuppose? This will require more development, but what needs to be presupposed is the way things actually are. You don’t need...
View ArticleBuilding Things With Sunshine
I have said in the past that I think evolution is a hoot, and moreover, I have given reasons for thinking this. One of the reasons is that the idea of evolution runs clean contrary to the second law of...
View ArticlePink Entropy
I recently wrote on the subject of entropy here, and set off a maelstrom of comments. Some people just have that gift, and other people don’t. That appears to be just the way it is for me, and I try to...
View ArticleSeven Theses on the Age of the Earth
I recently came to the conclusion that it was time to set down in one place my reasons for approaching Genesis the way I do. I have noticed that the topic has become a matter of increased debate in...
View ArticleTo Obligate Belief
The classic beginning of Calvin’s Institutes rightly assumes that it is not possible to know God without knowledge of ourselves. Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. But it runs the...
View ArticleSo Go Nomo to the Pomo
So I have written about the problems of postmodernism, what I have called the problem of European brain snakes. This might seem a little dismissive, but it all works out, because it actually is...
View ArticleTheir Temples of Reason
It is usually no fun when people play the race card, but when evolutionists do it, the results can be highly entertaining, at least after a few million years. My brother Gordon is Senior Fellow of...
View ArticleNatural Evil and the Classical Christian School
One of the central arguments that materialistic atheism offers against the Christian faith is that the reality and universality of suffering is inconsistent with the doctrine that we were created by,...
View ArticleIn Which Stephen Fry Steps In It
If you would be so kind, I would like to ask you to view this brief bit of blasphemous cheek. It’ll just take a few minutes. Now then, all set? Let’s break this down into two basic parts. The first...
View ArticleAbove Us Only Sky
Why . . . without an ἀρχή, nothing makes any kind of sense whatever! Suppose with me for a moment. Suppose that about fifteen nano-seconds after the Big Bang all the trillion-plex trillions of atoms...
View ArticleAn Appearance of Atheism
I saw on Facebook that Richard Dawkins had summarily dispatched the God of the Bible. Not only so, but he did it in under three minutes. I found out about this feat of legerdemain because Ken Ham’s...
View ArticleAtheist Debate War Stories
I am currently in Atlanta for the ACCS conference — and what a great time that is — but it turns out that John Lennox was also in town for another conference just a stone’s throw away, and through a...
View ArticleYou May Say I’m a Dweemer
The other night, on New Year’s Eve it was, I turned on the television shortly before nine in order to see 2017 stride confidently ashore on the east coast. What I actually got was a few minutes of a...
View ArticleTo Obligate Belief
The classic beginning of Calvin’s Institutes rightly assumes that it is not possible to know God without knowledge of ourselves. Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. But it runs the...
View ArticleSo Go Nomo to the Pomo
So I have written about the problems of postmodernism, what I have called the problem of European brain snakes. This might seem a little dismissive, but it all works out, because it actually is...
View ArticleTheir Temples of Reason
It is usually no fun when people play the race card, but when evolutionists do it, the results can be highly entertaining, at least after a few million years. My brother Gordon is Senior Fellow of...
View ArticleNatural Evil and the Classical Christian School
One of the central arguments that materialistic atheism offers against the Christian faith is that the reality and universality of suffering is inconsistent with the doctrine that we were created by,...
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